Unclassified road crash in Tower Hamlets E2 on 13 December 2014 at 22:23 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Tower Hamlets at 22:23 on Saturday 13 December 2014. A 50-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 22:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52582, longitude -0.06934, in the E2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tower Hamlets. It is one of the crashes that make up the Weavers, Tower Hamlets, E2 7LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tower Hamlets
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401HT29045
- Council area
- Tower Hamlets
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 1209
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 August 2003.
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 8 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200301HT00589
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 25 July 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010123226
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 7 August 2014
10 m awayRef 201401HT20692
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 29 November 2024
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Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 1 August 2020
19 m awayRef 2020010259781
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A1209 in Tower Hamlets, 5 August 2013
20 m awayRef 201301HT20714
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 50, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201401HT29045 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tower Hamlets road accident statistics for 2014.